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Youtube Anti-AntiAdblocker uBlock Origin Filter (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To get rid of the annoying YouTube message (ad blocker are not allowed on Youtube) use this custom filter in uBlock extension

Open uBlock extension dashboard
Open my filters tab
Copy & Paste this code into my filter
Apply changes and close all tabs

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 2 years ago (23 children)

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gross-profit

Alphabet gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2023 was $42.688B, a 7.85% increase year-over-year.

Alphabet gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2023 was $160.503B, a 1.7% increase year-over-year.

Alphabet annual gross profit for 2022 was $156.633B, a 6.77% increase from 2021.

Alphabet annual gross profit for 2021 was $146.698B, a 50.01% increase from 2020.

Alphabet annual gross profit for 2020 was $97.795B, a 8.71% increase from 2019.

Huh, they seemingly have money to not fuck our eyes without lube for ads, but I guess they somehow just don't have enough money, 156 billion dollars is really nothing after all. Probably more money in between my couch cushions. Such a small indie company that has to struggle to remain afloat, like an Etsy store.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BIG NUMBER MUST GO UP

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

MUST APPEASE THE GOD OF CAPITALISM AND THE ALMIGHTY SHAREHOLDERS!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Of course they don't have enough money

The goal is (as always) to have all the money

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

This phenomenon is normally created by a bunch of mid level people without many stock options trying to get promotions. They need the big arrow to go up to get a good raise, be recognized, etc in their individual business units.

The people pushing things to go up are typically not motivated by the gross number as much as they are making their boss happy enough to pay them more. That's why the change is all that matters.

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I could tolerate ONE ad per video, at the beginning, but 3 or 4 ads in a less than ten minute video? Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You see YouTube is a American company and in America every thing is extreme you ether have a lot of ads or no ads you can have a extremely massive car or a cat that's soo small it doesn't exist

[–] Darkassassin07 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But... But... What If I want a large cat and a tiny car?

I want my leopard riding shotgun in my smart car.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could only tolerate ElectroBoom-style "This video is sponsored by oscilloscope company" ads.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's the thing.

You're already proud to lower your standards, why not lower them further?

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[+] ultratiem 97 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's not even just the Internet. Marketing fucks up every aspect of our civilization. We can't even handle having a professional election anymore without trashy ads and people acting like children. You can't even watch legitimate news anymore. ...nevermind mind whack kids pranking people on YouTube being used and turning into assholes for YouTube monetization.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This answer confuses me. The message on that pop up is "buy YouTube premium, so you won't be stuck in our ad supported model" and now we're ranting that they need to find another model to finance themselves? Isn't YouTube premium exactly that?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Paying to remove ads is part of the ad business model. Upset your customer enough until they give you money to make it stop. Once you pay to remove the ads you have rewarded them for implementing ads which lets them know that implementing ads was a great way at making money.

So YouTube premium is not another model. It is the same model. Another model is paying for a service that never had ads at all such as NebulaTV or CuriosityStream.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're right, but premium is too expensive. They make a pittance per ad view, but expect a user to pay $14/m to get rid of them? The math doesn't math.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

They simultaneously introduced this ad blocker change and took away the $5 no-ads package.

This is a shakedown and it's been happening across many streaming platforms for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't mind ads as a concept. The issue is how invasive and numerous they've become. Get back to the days when ads were just banners around the actual content or an easily skippable video that plays before what I'm trying to watch and I'll happily disable my ad blocker for you. Unfortunately hardly anyone does that anymore because they view it as a missed opportunity to make even more money.

I'm not against using ads to support websites but it's the same basic concept as piracy. If you make the experience of playing by the rules so unbearable that it seems easier to go out of my way to break them then I probably will.

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[+] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah. Nah.

I shouldn't have to watch any ads on an already-profitable product. Accepting less is just me lowering my standards so people richer than me can be even richer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's more than that. Would you devote 1-5% of your PC resources to others while you watch a video, if you could watch a video without ads? Yes. I bet so.

We are able to easily shoulder the burdens of hosting, yet Google wants to dominate us and force us to use their hosting at the psychological cost of being their sponge for anyone's paid information campaign. YouTube in 2016 was non-stop Trump ads. Non fucking stop.

FUCK Google.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

How dare you try to bridle unbridled capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

They're going to randomize all vars and function names, mark my words.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Yup. Ad blockers work on pattern matching rules. Countering them might take some work but it's not impossible - make the URLs that do the bad shit indistinguishable from the ones that make the video works and likewise html elements. Randomise everything, make the paths to things unpredictable. I'm sure YouTube could even merge the ads into the content stream so they are unavoidable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I'm sure YouTube could even merge the ads into the content stream so they are unavoidable."

Who is going to tell him?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

it will be an interesting cat and mouse game or people will start to shift to another video sharing platform

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Of course they are, for example when targeting HTML elements you generally need to target text not vars or function names.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Your turn google

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How long until youtube add an anti-anti-anti-adblocker?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

I miss 3 days ago when the blockade was just some HTML

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Let the cat and mouse games begin!!!! Thanks for the heads up though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Anytime you all want to go back to making your own websites

Anytime

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[–] Grant_M 12 points 2 years ago

Get your FreeTube subs set up and ready to go. https://freetubeapp.io/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Semi-related: what's a good frontend for android TV? I'm loving NewPipe on my phone, but on the TV it refuses to work in full screen and often in not-full screen too..

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

SmartTubeNext is your best bet, I think Libretube devs will be working on landscape support too sometime, but that's probably very far away

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is the any way to add something like this to my pihole to block all this shit network wide?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pihole, if i understand correctly, works by blocking DNS requests and YouTube ads are not DNS based the way ads usually are. You're stuck blocking them by uBO on each device or use Invidious.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had this code saved and had suggested it to others before but now I didn't take my own advice and had been struggling with those pop-ups for the past few days. I hope this solves it.

EDIT: Doesn't work. Still got the popup despite having all other extensions disabled and uBlock on default settings

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